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Wondering what theatre to book and what plays to see? From fringe to the West End: London's best theatre
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After a successful sold out run at the Hampstead Theatre, this musical about the Kinks reigns supreme on the West End, with new cast and extended run
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Ralph Fiennes masters Ibsen's tragic hero in playwright David Hare's thrilling but frigid adaptation at the Old Vic
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Sourdough pizza, craft beer and gelato shine in this charming new Crystal Palace restaurant 400 Rabbits
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Timberlake Wertenbaker's masterpiece about the humanising power of theatre for prisoners in 1788 Australia is revived at the National Theatre.
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Cinema
The Wolfpack movie review: documentary about Manhattan's indigenous tribe of teenagers raised, not by wolves, but by Tarantino, is at once heartbreaking and hopeful
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Theatre
This Spanish Golden Age style thriller about a proto-feminist nun in 17th century is brought to lively, lusty life at Shakespeare's Globe.
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The Donmar London premiere of playwright Abi Morgan's Splendour is a tense, intelligent and expertly performed by an all-female cast.
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For his final season in the role Dominic Dromgoole, Globe Artistic Director, directs a sizzling production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, summer 2015
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Barbara Hepworth: Tate Britain stage a retrospective of one of our greatest artists - but we wish they'd shoo away her male contemporaries.
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Theatre
With a glowing performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste, debbie tucker green's 'hang' is a taut three hander about justice that keeps you guessing.
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Theatre
Gary Owen, playwright, explores issues of violence and consent in this consuming and arresting new play Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs summer 2015.
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What happens at Secret Cinema stays at Secret Cinema... Star Wars Episode V has come to a hidden location in London.
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Food
Introducing 'The Domino Effect': Hotel Café Royal Hotel is hosting a season of award-winning chefs in celebration of the anniversary of one of Regent Street's iconic bastions.
Interview
Why do women wear high heels even though they're so uncomfortable? V&A curator Helen Persson gives Helena Kealey the answers at the new exhibition, Shoes: Pleasure and Pain
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Carsten Höller kicks inhibitions to the curb at the Hayward Gallery: dive in for the most fun you'll have all summer!
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WEST END TRANSFER: Boldly reimagined yet subtle, Robert Icke's Oresteia is a triumph with high quality performances all round.
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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2015 is the best show in London this season with eye-popping colours and a rainbow of stellar artists
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Tate Modern Agnes Martin retrospective goes off the grid with silently powerful paintings from a turbulent mind
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Peter Pan: Regent's Park production is a moving, intelligent and fun-filled triumph, writes Lucy Brooks.
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Absorbing, challenging and entertaining, this immersive game is unlike anything we've experienced on stage. Lucy Brooks reviews World Factory.
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Arthur Miller's classic is made freshly devastating in this flawless RSC revival as it transfers to the West End, says Lucy Brooks.
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Elegant, Swellegant and utterly charming, High Society brings Hollywood glamour to jubilant life at the Old Vic says Lucy Brooks
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The humour and heartbreak of Shakespeare's problem play are brought to life with Jonathan Pryce making a stellar Shylock says Lucy Brooks
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Bugsy Malone on stage is a joyous Prohibition pastiche that delights all ages, say Eleonore and Anatole Dresch.
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Bold, ambitious but a little hollow, Everyman is more spectacle than spiritual, writes Lucy Brooks
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David Mamet's muscular comedy, starring John Goodman, Tom Sturridge and Damian Lewis, is revived with style says Lucy Brooks.
Features
The best of the Sony World Photography Awards: our guide to the world's biggest photography competition at Somerset House.
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Dynamic indigenous Australian culture comes to life at the British Museum, but is it anything we haven't seen before?
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Simon Stephen's adaptation distills the passion of opera through the anonymity of modern city life with poetic power Lucy Brooks
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Eugene O'Neil's gently uplifting family portrait is brought to life with a dreamlike set and dark undertones says Lucy Brooks.
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REVIEW: Enda Walsh's The Twits: a heap of fun with a set to boggle the mind.